World Fuel Services, West Coast Clean Fuels bunker methanol in Florida
In the United States, World Fuel Services and West Coast Clean Fuels have completed the country’s first over-the-water methanol bunker fuel delivery, carried out in South Florida last month, making a nationwide methanol bunkering capability available to vessel owners and operators for the first time.
West Coast Clean Fuels is currently the only operator in the United States with U.S. Coast Guard-approved truck-to-ship methanol bunkering procedures, and says its operational approach helped shape the Coast Guard’s recent regulatory guidance on the practice.
The service can be deployed to additional U.S. ports on demand, giving shipowners a compliant domestic option as the maritime industry looks to reduce its dependence on heavy fuel oil.
Category: Sustainable Marine Fuels
